Junkyard Planet

Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

Adam Minter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2015
Bloomsbury Press (Verlag)
978-1-60819-793-4 (ISBN)

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When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that’s transforming our economy and environment.

With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or a William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America’s junk and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff fuels a world that recognizes value where Americans don’t. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.

Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became a professional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai correspondent for Bloomberg World View, in addition to making regular contributions to the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He now lives in Shanghai and blogs at shanghaiscrap.com. Junkyard Planet is his first book.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2015
Zusatzinfo	2 x 16 page color inserts
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	332 g
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Asien ► China
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-60819-793-X / 160819793X
ISBN-13	978-1-60819-793-4 / 9781608197934
Zustand	Neuware